Our setup was you needed one person to approve a merge request. These guys were buddies and would fast-track approvals. Also at that point, there were ~10 con

Our setup was you needed one person to approve a merge request. These guys were buddies and would fast-track approvals. Also at that point, there were ~10 contributors to the code base, so things moved quickly. Other product within the company had a more formal code ownership structure, but this project was only two years old. So there were no owners, other than for infrastructure.